Bird ringing at Grotto Bay : 31 August 2024
On 31 August we held an Open Day for bird ringing at Grotto Bay Private Nature Reserve. We caught 62 birds of 19 species (list at the bottom of this blog), incl...
Author: Dieter Oschadleus
Dieter Oschadleus leads the BDI bird ringing expeditions, and is able to organise bird ringing courses (having run many courses in South Africa, and some in the Seychelles). Dieter is also a registered bird guide in South Africa, and has birded widely in Africa and the Indian Ocean islands. Dieter is able to act as a bird guide for day trips in Cape Town, and is able to customise birds tours in South Africa and beyond.
Commercial biodiversity 1 : birds at Northgate Business Park
We tend to be dismissive of the idea that “development” can be any good for “biodiversity”. Northgate Business Park was clearly designed...
Bird ringing at Botuin : 2 to 5 June 2024
A group of BDI people went bird ringing at Botuin, Vanrhynsdorp, from Sunday 2 June to Wednesday 5 June. The aim was to keep a consistent pattern of ringing goi...
Bird ringing course at Ouberg Private Nature Reserve: 1 to 7 May 2024
The BDI hosted the eighth bird ringing course from 1 to 7 May, this time at Ouberg Private Nature Reserve in the Klein Karoo, north of Montagu. This was the fir...
Bird Ringing Course at Botuin, Vanrhynsdorp: 31 January to 6 February 2024
This was the seventh BDI bird ringing course. You get links to the previous courses and other bird ringing events here. Although we had some extremely hot (over...
Bird ringing at Vondeling, 17 to 20 August 2023
Two weeks after our previous bird ringing visit, we were again at Vondeling Wine Farm. This time we focused on species diversity. We caught 26 species in four d...
Bird ringing at Vondeling, 3 to 6 August 2023
We had an enjoyable long weekend of bird ringing at Vondeling Wines. Although we are still deep in winter, the first signs of spring were evident, green shoots ...
Bird ringing course at Botuin : 28 June to 4 July 2023
Although mid winter, we had a great bird ringing course at Botuin, in Vanrhynsdorp. The days were shorter and colder, and the migrants had left (except for one!...
Bird Ringing at Vondeling Wine Farm, June 2023
We had a few excellent days of bird ringing at Vondeling Wine Farm, from 8 to 11 June. We occupied two comfortable cottages, recently transformed into visitor a...
Bird ringing at Botuin: summary 2020 to 2023
This blog is a summary of bird ringing at Botuin, Vanrhynsdrop. Over our first three bird ringing visits to Botuin, we have caught 748 birds of 57 species! Botu...